Second night of protest in Berkeley, Missouri,
near the gas station where a young Black 18 year old was killed Tuesday by a police officer.
Berkeley is a common boundary of Ferguson, where police shot dead last August a young unarmed man, Michael Brown, also African-American.
Anxious to appease the population, the mayor of this town, Theodore Hoskins, to avoid any confusion between the two events:
"What I saw in this incident, it is not what people describe. there was a gun on a police officer before it does not draw. But we need to complete the investigation before taking a position. "
Police County of St. Louis invoke self-defense, but according to a close, the victim was reportedly shot dead following a refusal to take down.
This case occurs in a context of social tension. The death of Michael Brown, this summer, and the impunity granted to the white policeman who killed, sparked a wave of protests cutter police brutality.
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